Assiut University President, Prof. Dr. Tarek El-Gammal, stressed the keenness of the university administration to encourage students to innovate different technological fields, especially industrial engineering projects. This coincided with the team ‘Assuit robotics’ (Faculty of Engineering) winning the third place at the level of the Republic in the international competition ‘Minesweeper’ in order to identify landmines and explosives organized by the Academy of Scientific Research in its eighth version this year at the American University in Cairo.